Spur Feeding Company v. Fernandez

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• noting it would be reversible error to instruct the jury on a theory unsupported by the facts because the court would thereby invite the jury to speculate as to possible non-existent circumstances
• “We agree that it is reversible error to instruct upon a theory which is not supported by facts to be found in the record.”
• “We agree that it is reversible error to instruct upon a theory which is not supported by facts to be found in the record . . . since the court thereby invites the jury to speculate as to possible non-existent circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).